The Square House

The Square House, formerly known as Pensilua, is a house dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of painted stone rubble and rendered cob, featuring slate sills and shallow brick arches. The roof is half-hipped and covered with asbestos slate, with brick chimneys on the side walls. The house has a double depth plan, with a kitchen and living room on the left (which was converted into a shop shortly after it was built), a parlour on the right, and a central cross passage leading to a staircase situated between an unheated rear service room on the left and a back kitchen on the right.

The building is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-window front facing southeast. The central doorway has a four-panel door, which has been later fitted with glazing at the top, and is sheltered by a 19th-century trellis porch. To the left of the doorway is a wide window opening with two fixed lights, each containing 16 panes. Above the doorway is a four-pane sash window, while the other windows are original 16-pane hornless sashes. The interior has seen little alteration since the 19th century, featuring a staircase with an open-well, open-string design, stick balusters, panelled doors, and a moulded plaster ceiling band in the parlour. A photograph from around 1900 is available for comparison.